Analyze this
The analysis of the Worlds has kicked off with a good article from Toby on thedailysail.com
This is the second year in a row they have turned up to the World Championships more prepared than the rest of the world. In particular they seem to place a much higher value on using training partners and groups than many other nations and this has shown in their results. Adam May commented to TheDailySail that: “The Brits just are not spending the time sailing together at the moment. Looking back at last year Rohan [Veal] and Amac [Andrew MacDougal] both spent a lot of time training together and this year John Harris and Scott [Babbage] did the same.” It is pretty easy to see this is the case with Harris winning the Worlds, Babbage taking fifth and Amac in second, having been the leader after the first day. By way of contrast two sailors who were predicted to be very fast, but who had both run very individual campaigns were Simon Payne and American Bora Gulari. They ended up in eighth and 20th respectively.
Great to see the media coverage of the event… with even a live-blog of the racing and the 4 hour + AGM on Wednesday! Toby must’ve been as bored as I was the day before when I blogged the manufacturer update.
July 18th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
Yes I was. Plus I thought I ought to after you showed me up at said designers meeting.